Non Fiction resources in the library
2231Cold War
Page 231-258
2231 The USA and Vietnam 1945-75
Page 109-131
Audio & Visual Resources
Vietnam War [videorecording]Call Number: Library - Audio-visual NF VIEISBN: 1422904563Published: 2007The History Channel presents a 2-disc set that profiles the decision makers and chronicles the key events in the Vietnam War, from the advisor's arrival in 1959 to the airlift from the roof of the American Embassy in 1975. Archival footage and interviews with historians and veterans reveal the military and political strategies in play, and CBS News archives take viewers to the frontlines to witness the daily struggles of American servicemen and women.
Documentaries that changed the world [videorecording] by Call Number: Library - Audio-visual 959.05Published: 2006Disc 2.
Vietnam [videorecording] : a television history by Call Number: Library - Audio-visual NF VIEPublished: 2004Contents: Disc 1: Roots of a war (1945-1953) -- America's Mandarin (1954-1963) -- Disc 2: LBJ goes to war (1964-1965) -- America takes charge (1965-1967) -- America's enemy (1954-1967) -- Disc 3: Tet 1968 -- Vietnamizing the war (1968-1973) -- Cambodia and Laos -- Disc 4: Peace is at hand (1968-1973) -- Homefront USA -- The end of the tunnel (1973-1975)
Fiction books
Novel without a name by
Twenty-eight-year-old Quan has been fighting for the Communist cause in North Vietnam for a decade. Filled with idealism and hope when he first left his village, he now spends his days and nights dodging stray bullets and bombs, foraging for scraps of food to feed himself and his men. Quan seeks comfort in childhood memories as he tries to sort out his conflicting feelings of patriotism and disillusionment. Then, given the chance to return to his home, Quan undertakes a physical and mental journey that brings him face to face with figures from his past- his angry father, his childhood sweetheart, his boyhood friends now maimed or dead- and ultimately to the shattering reality that his innocence has been irretrievably lost in the wake of the war.
Call Number: Library - Adult Fiction F DUOISBN: 0140255109Published: 1996
Song of the buffalo boy by Call Number: Library - Adult Fiction F GARISBN: 0152000984Published: 1994When American soldiers left Vietnam, many left children behind - like 17 year old Loi, whose fellow villagers shunned and mistreated because she was a 'con-lai' - of mixed heritage - and a reminder of their country's tragic civil war. Determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City with the hope that she and the boy she loves will be able to go to the United States to find her American father.
The things they carried : a work of fiction by
They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated Bibles, each other. And if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarish war that history is only beginning to absorb. Since its first publication, The Things They Carried has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic work of American literature, and a profound study of men at war that illumniates the capacity, and the limites, of the human heart and soul.A sequence of stories it aims to summarise America's involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to terms with that experience in the years that followed.
The Things They Carried was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Call Number: Library - Adult Fiction F OBRISBN: 0618706410Published: 2009
The beauty of humanity movement by Call Number: Library - Fiction F GIBISBN: 1848877935Published: 2011Tu' is a young tour guide working in Hanoi. As he leads bands of Westerners on 'war tours' through the scarred landscape of Vietnam, he wonders what it is that his clients see - and what they miss entirely. Maggie is Vietnamese by birth but has lived most her life in the U.S. Returning to her homeland, she sifts through history for clues as to the fate of her dissident father. Witness to both their stories, Old Man Hung has lived through decades of political upheaval. But Hung has found a way to provide hope in his waterside community: The Beauty of Humanity Movement.
A million shades of grey by Call Number: Library - Fiction F KADISBN: 184738823XPublished: 2010Ever since Tin can remember he's wanted to be an elephant trainer. At twelve years old, he's the youngest - and in his eyes the best - elephant handler in his village. Tin can think of nothing he'd rather do that spend all day with his elephant, Lady, looking after her and playing together. But Tin's peaceful, idyllic life is changed dramatically when the Viet Cong attack his village and he finds himself held hostage by the terrifying soldiers who don't care if he lives or dies. Can Tin find the courage to escape from his captors and save not only his own life, but his precious elephants too?
